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Frederick Douglass was the son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery He was enslaved for twenty years In city households in Baltimore and on Maryland farms.

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Born into bondage, Douglass recounts the brutality of his early life on a Maryland plantation and his determination to educate himself against all adds.

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Frederick Douglass had two daughters Rosetta, born 1839 and Annie born 1849 and three sons Lewis Henry born 1840 Frederick Jr born 1842 and Charles Remond born 1844.

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Frederick Douglass was born a slave Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Talbot County Maryland.

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He rose to fame with the 1845 publication of his first book The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself. He fought throughout most of his career for the abolition of slavery and worked with notable abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and Gerrit Smith.

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Frederick Douglass was an inspiration for the selection of February as Black History Month though his actual birth date was unknown he chose to celebrate his birthday on February 14.

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There were more photographs taken of Douglass than of any other person in the 19th century he was photographed 160 times.

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Frederick Douglass was a runaway slave who became one of the most influential abolitionists in the years leading up to the Civil War. Through his work with the Underground Railroad, it is estimated that at least 400 runaway slaves were helped by Douglass and his wife.

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when Frederick Douglass was free he was 20 years old after several failed attempts he escaped from slavery and arrived in New York City on Sept. 4 1838. Frederick Bailey who changed his last name to Douglass soon after his arrival would later write in his autobiography a new world has opened upon me.

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Douglass so impressed his supporters in Britain that they purchased his freedom allowing him to return to the United States two years later a legally free man He settled in Rochester New York where he bought a printing press and began publishing The North Star which became the nation's preeminent anti slavery newspaper.